Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 124
And now came a yeoman to say that the dinner was served.
What happens: come, say, serve · To what, where: yeoman, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 yeoman | det |
| 5 | yeoman | yeoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 yeoman | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 served | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dinner | det |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 served | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 served | aux:pass |
| 12 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 say | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a yeoman | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yeoman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | a yeoman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve | past · passive | the dinner | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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